Books: Pyramid for a Cold Fish

John O'Hara is perhaps the U.S.'s chief social embalmer of manners and
morals among the moneyed. His latest novel is a massive pyramid of
prose raised over the mummified form of a minor Pharoah of finance
named Alfred Eaton. As if by ancient Egyptian custom, Eaton's living
tomb is stocked with the appurtenances of his caste and class: tennis
rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon
runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes,
partnership in a Wall Street banking house,...